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Cogne is a common one of Goes them of Aosta of approximately 1.500 inhabitants, situated in the southern part of the region, to the cospetto of the massive one of the Great Paradise that give the name omonimo to the National Park. The citizen of Cogne, whose name derives from "cuneus" wedge, for via of its shape, finds to the center of the communal territory to the margins of one wide extended green: the Prati di Sant' Bear. In the Cogne past it has been an important mining center for the extraction of the iron mineral, that it came then sended to Aosta for the working; today it is an important tourist locality and one of the world-wide centers of the bottom ski. Cogne is also famous for its peaks works you to the tombolo: dentelles de the Cogne. Cogne is connected to goes centers them them and to the flat one of Aosta through S.R. 47 whose entrance is situated to the height of the lived one of Aymavilles. An other distance in order to catch up the fondovalle consists in following the tramway draft Cold Cogne-Acque, the ancient one trenino that traportava the magnetite towards the altiforni of Aosta, in order then to come down to goes them with theAosta-Pila cableway. The country tos be distant 140 Km from Turin, 210 from Milan, 270 from Genoa and 160 from Geneva. In ages econmiche passages the relation of the valley and therefore the communication ways were not directed towards Go it them of Aosta, but towards the Piemonte and the Canavese in paricolare, caught up passing for muleteer and necks of high mountain as the hill of the Mess or the hill of the Arietta.La goes them of Cogne it belongs to skillful the catchment basin of the Dora Baltea; draft of one goes them to U subsequently dug from the sudden start of the torrents whose high full of rocks walls have been eroded more resumptions during the freezings. Shortly before catching up the inhabited center it goes it them is opened and it is circulated in more directions: towards South the Valnontey that door to the slopes of the Great Paradise, towards North the Walloon of Grauson with omonima the tip, towards East finds instead the Walloon of the Urtier and the Valleille. All the coming from torrents from these go them, feed to you perlopiù from the issolution of snows and from lagos in quota, they meet in the Grand Eyvia (literally Great Water), which flows little in the Dora Baltea to mount of the lived one of Aymavilles. Between the more catastrophic events that they have hit the country in recent times sure remembers the alluvium of 1993, but above all that one of 15 October 2000; in that occasion esondazioni and landslides fell beyond 400 milimeter of rain in 2 days provoking. The landscape is that typical one of the high mountain: forests of pines, firs and larici to the higher quotas cover the depositors of mountains until the 2200 meters; salting grassy steppes are met then pietraie and cliff knot and finally ghiacciai. In this various atmosphere they become part species of animals, between which those protected ones from the Park like stambecchi, chamois, beavers, ermellini, pellets, aquile, gipeti... The municipal district of Cogne is in the region/district of Aosta Valley and it's in the province of Aosta. the postcode is 11012 and the code number is +39 0165. Inhabitants are 1.469 and the surface is about 212 km2, with a density of population about 7 people for km2. Distance: from Rome 583 km, from Florence 371 km and from Venice 388 km.
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